Post #1588552
2026-04-23 09:13 UTC
I’m no fan of Greg Egan’s fiction but I am a fan of him pissing of rats:
lesswrong.com/…/an-angry-review-of-greg-egan-s-di…
Link to short story: www.gregegan.net/DIDICOSM/Complete/Didicosm.html
also
lesswrong.com/…/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (shared in a comment to the above)
Here’s the short story that pissed Zack off: asimovs.com/wp-content/…/DeathGorgon_Egan.pdf
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-04-23 17:31
I’m a huge fan of Greg Egan’s fiction and a huge fan of him pissing off the rats. He’s been explicitly needling them and making fun of them in his fiction for over a decade. Making calm contradictions against them for over two decades, after noticing weirdos being fans of his.
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@mirrorwitch@awful.systems 2026-04-24 07:56
I rarely find that reading fiction makes me upset […] fiction can be quite bad, but rarely do I find it personally offensive… Rat reading a book that makes fun of AI doom in passing: Me, a trans woman immigrant: knowyourmeme.com/…/mel-gibson-talking-to-bloody-j…